The eight-week Summer@ICERM2017 program is designed for a select group of 16-20 undergraduate scholars. The program will give undergraduates an opportunity for exposure and research in the methods of “Applied Topology” in the study of complex data sets.

The program will offer mini-courses for students at the beginning of the program:

Persistent Homology from the Computational Viewpoint;

Distances Between Metric Spaces and Applications; and

Topological Time Series Analysis.

The faculty advisors will then present severalresearch projects that are highly interdisciplinary and represent areas where topological data analysis stands to have a deep and meaningful impact:

Shape Classification;

Action Recognition;

Feature Recognition from Persistent Diagrams;

Local Persistence Diagrams;

Configuration Spaces;

Künneth Formula for Persistent Homology;

Classification of Music Data Streams: Music Information Retrieval; and

Analysis of Hippocampal Networks.

Tackling these projects will require a combination of analytical and computational approaches, and students will be expected to gain intuition into some of these problems via analysis, computer experimentation, and visualization.

Throughout the eight-week program, students will work on their assigned projects in groups of two to four, supervised by faculty advisors and aided by teaching assistants. Students will meet daily, attend mini-courses, learn how to write reports in LaTeX, give weekly team talks about their findings, attend professional development seminars, and write up their research into a poster and/or paper by the end of the program.

ICERM provides an excellent research environment, and the students and their faculty and TA mentors will have access to shared offices and collaborative space throughout the institute. They also will have access to ICERM’s computer facilities and specialized software. ICERM staff will provide logistical support for students and will help build community through fun activities and events.

Funding is available for a very small number of students who are not US citizens or permanent residents.

Non-Brown University students must apply via MathPrograms.org by February 17, 2017 to receive full consideration. ICERM will begin making offers to non-Brown University students between late February and early March 2017.

Brown University students must apply for Jeff Brock's I-Team UTRA before January 15, 2017 (not via MathPrograms.org). The I-Team UTRAs will be announced to the Brown University student applicants on February 1, 2017. Applications for Brown Students are now CLOSED.

ICERM encourages women and members of underrepresented minorities to apply.

Application Materials Required:

Submit the following items online at this website to complete your application:

Personal Statement of interest as it pertains to this program

Two Reference Letters (to be submitted by the reference writers at this site )